Gnjilane Group

Gnjilane Group (Serbian: Гњиланска група, Gnjilanska grupa) is the name of a subgroup part of the Kosovo Albanian UÇK (Kosovo Liberation Army). During the Kosovo War, the group was accused of being the perpetrators of more than 153 physical abuses, of civilian Serbs between June–October 1999 in the town of Gnjilane, Kosovo after the international forces of NATO troops and KFOR arrived.[1] The killings were noted for their brutality.[2]

The group consisted of ethnic Albanians from Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa, home to Albanians of southern Serbia, bordering Kosovo, and Albanians of western Republic of Macedonia. They were a special group of UÇK tasked with the ethnic cleansing of the remaining Serbs of Gnjilane. The victims included children, pregnant women[3] and the elderly and disabled.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-09-27. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  3. ↑ D. Zečević. "Krici iz podruma strave | Dosije". Novosti.rs. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  4. ↑ "Gnjilane Group". 29 December 2008. Archived from the original on 8 March 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
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